jane austen

I watched the new Persuasion today on Netflix. A very strange interpretation! They use mostly modern language but it is set in the correct historic times. For example, the main character Anne Elliott says Captain Wentworth is her “ex”. Another man is described as a “10”. Her father says to hide...

The author Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) wrote six perfect novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. They are not simply romance novels, although who will marry well is always the main plot, but are also witty commentaries on life at...

The Grannys Teeth steps on the Cobb, described in her novel Persuasion.

The grave and stone is in the church.

Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral.

Chawton House were her brother lived.

Gravestones for her mother and sister.

Chawton Church where her sister and mother are buried.

Thatched houses in the village.

The back of the house and her bedroom window.

Quilt made by Jane, her sister Cassandra and her mother.

View from her bedroom to the back of the house.

Inside the house.

Her writing table.

The house they lived in is now the Jane Austen Museum.

From Bath, Jane, her mother and sister moved to Chawton where her brother Edward gave them a house.

The nearby rectory (Adlestrop House) where she stayed.

Inside the church which she would have visited.

Jane visited a relative who was the rector in Adlestrop in the Cotswolds.

"Jane Austen lived here" plaque.